From this table it appears that England nearly doubled

its inhabitants between the years 1700 and 1810.

Cornwall...

Counties of

Bedford .... 65,500 72,600

Berks..

Buckingham 111,000 121,600
Cambridge.. 92,300 104,500
Chester ... 198,100 234,600 | 1,017 | 33
194,500 223,900 1,407 32

112,800 122,300

748 33

686 30

Kent.. .. .. 317,800 | 385,600|1,462 | 30

Lancaster 695,100 $56,000 1,806

29 48

108

Leicester 134,400 155,100 816
Lincoln.. 215,500 245,900 2,787 32

36

The population here given may be taken as the true popu-
lation of Great Britain: that given at page 385 includes the
whole of the navy and army, part of which is supplied by
Ireland.

From the population of 1811, the number of inhabitants

to each square mile in Great Britain is 141-in England
180 nearly, and in Scotland 64 nearly.

OBSERVATIONS.

From the last Population Returns it appears, that
throughout England and Wales, the proportion of burials
in a year, to the number of inhabitants, is as 1 to 50:
hence the number of people that die in a year, multiplied
by 50, will give the whole number of inhabitants. The
proportion of births annually is as 1 to 34, and of mar-
riages 1 to 122. The annual proportion between the bap-
tisms and marriages is as 357 to 100, or 3 to 1 nearly.
The proportion between the sexes, as determined from
the register of baptisms for 10 years, is as 100 males to
96 females a proportion which exactly balances the num-
ber of those who die abroad in the employments of war
and commerce. The same proportion determined from
the whole population, including the army and navy, will
be as 100 males to 99 females nearly.

The annual proportion between the number of burials
in a country, and the number of inhabitants, has been
usually stated as 1 to 33; whereas the proportion for
England and Wales appears, as stated above, 1 to 50. So
very great a difference indicates, either a decreased mor-
tality to a considerable amount, or an error in former
calculations. The following remarks on this subject are
taken from the "Preliminary Observations to the Enu-
meration and Parish Register Abstracts, 1811:”—“ The
annual number of burials authorizes a satisfactory inference
of diminishing mortality in England since the year 1780.
-The average number of burials, from 1780 to 1800, was
192,000 per annum-from 1800 to 1805, it was 194,000
per annum-and from 1805 to 1811, 196,000 per annum.
It follows from hence that about the year 1780, one person
in 40 died annually; in 1790, one in 45; in 1800, one in
47; and in 1810, one in 49 or 50."